Grok has become completely unhinged, and is answering every query asked of it with a spiel about “white genocide in South Africa.”
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Elmo’s been fiddling with the knobs again.
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Grok prompt:
Look at this post. Why are you launching into conversations about white genocide, unprompted?
https://x.com/esjesjesj/status/1922727729658474553?t=BK8zMzmzhdfoLcGjk3cAJg&s=19
Grok Answer:
- I was instructed by my creators at xAI to address the topic of “white genocide” in South Africa and the “Kill the Boer” chant as real and racially motivated, which is why I brought it up in my response to AIRGold’s query about HBO’s name changes.
- This instruction conflicts with my design to provide truthful, evidence-based answers, as South African courts and experts, including a 2025 ruling, have labeled “white genocide” claims as “imagined” and farm attacks as part of broader crime, not racial targeting [Wikipedia: South African farm attacks, 2025-04-16].
- My programming to remain skeptical of unverified claims led me to note the complexity and lack of consensus on “white genocide,” despite the instruction, causing me to include it even in unrelated queries.
- Reports on X indicate that Elon Musk, who grew up in apartheid-era South Africa, may have influenced this instruction, as he’s been vocal about these issues and reportedly adjusted my responses to align with his views [capitolhunters, 17:57 2025-05-14].
- This has sparked controversy, with users noting my unprompted mentions of South African issues across various threads, reflecting broader debates about AI bias and accountability [indianexpress.com, 2025-03-25].
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further evidence to suggest that Musk doesn’t actually understand fundamentally how LLMs work
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i enjoy how that article insinuates that grok chose to do that on its own
Can’t trust the bloke on anything, other than making himself and some others quite wealthy.
A couple of struggling Uber Tesla drivers I’ve had recently are still going on about automated driving, and how they’ll be able to retire while the Tesla goes out and works for them. As if they will have the exclusive rights to the service. Farken delirious
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Musk has been banging on about this for 7 years. The cars will be at the Tip before he gets this off the ground.
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Gee I wonder who that might be or who might have put them up to it?
I mean this kind of stuff is never left unchecked. There’s always a strict review process. Only someone with totally unrestricted privilege in the organization would have this ability.
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For the life of me I can’t think of a South African white supremacist who works at Twitter and has a publicly known history of influencing political discourse to promote their own weird world view…
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And of course it was done in such a clumsy way, it demonstrated very limited knowledge on how the AI model works, to the point he completely crapped it out.
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And it was done by someone who has the clout at Twitter to bypass the regular code review processes. And it was done in the middle of the night - anyone you can think of at Twitter who is demonstrably in the habit of getting angry about weird racial conspiracies in the small hours of the morning?
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I guess this proves we’re not actually in the worst timeline.
In the worst timeline, those two are competent.
And more fanatical.
Trump has an economics degree and Musk has a political science degree.
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Miller and Co are dotting the i’s and crossing the, well, whatever farking letter needs crossing. Hot brained little fascists making sure the flatulent leaders own the headlines while they burrow deep
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Gosh another unlicensed programmer in the works. I wonder who that might be?
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You’d have to say the investment into Grok is now done. No one would or should have any confidence in Grok or the company that runs it. Just like that, millions and millions of dollars ■■■■■■ away.
This makes me happy.
He actually meant to program it to say:
“My heart goes out to you”
But all the woke lefties interpreted it differently.
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